Thing about a one-party state is that the things you would correctly call out as batshit far-right knee-jerk authoritarianism anywhere else gets folded into mainstream Democratic party policies and people just shrug at it.
UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks.
This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
